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The articles of association October 20 1774
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We, his majesty's most loyal subjects, the delegates of the several colonies of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New- Jersey, Pennsylvania, the three lower counties of Newcastle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, and South-Carolina, deputed to represent them in a continental Congress, held in the city of Philadelphia, on the 5th day of September, 1774, avowing our allegiance to his majesty, our affection and regard for our fellow-subjects in Great-Britain and elsewhere, affected with the deepest anxiety, and most alarming apprehensions, at those grievances and distresses, with which his Majesty's American subjects are oppressed; and having taken under our most serious deliberation, the state of the whole continent, find, that the present unhappy situation of our affairs is occasioned by a ruinous system of colony administration, adopted by the British ministry about the year 1763, evidently calculated for enslaving these colonies, and, with them, the British Empire. In prosecution of which system, various acts of parliament have been passed, for raising a revenue in America, for depriving the American subjects, in many instances, of the constitutional trial by jury, exposing their lives to danger, by directing a new and illegal trial beyond the seas, for crimes alleged to have been com mitted in America: And in prosecution of the same system, severallate, cruel, and oppressive acts have been passed, respecting the town of Boston and the Massachusetts-Bay, and also an act for extending the province of Quebec, so as to border on the western frontiers of these colonies, establishing an arbitrary government therein, and discouraging the settlement of British subjects in that wide extended country; thus, by the influence of civil principles and ancient prejudices, to dispose the inhabitants to act with hostility against the free Protestant colonies, whenever a wicked ministry shall chose so to direct them.
To obtain redress of
these grievances, which threaten destruction to the lives liberty, and property of his majesty's subjects,
in North-America, we are of
opinion, that a non-importation, non-consumption, and non-exportation
agreement, faithfully adhered to, will prove the most speedy, effectual, and
peaceable measure: And, therefore, we do, for ourselves, and the inhabitants of
the several colonies, whom we represent, firmly agree and associate, under the
sacred ties of virtue, honour and love of our country, as follows:
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Declaration
of Independence 1776
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Articles
of Confederation 1781—1788
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The Barbary Treaties 1786-1816
Treaty with Morocco June 28 and July 15, 1786
Treaty with Morocco June 28 and July 15, 1786
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American
Constitution for United States of
America - North Continent (1789)
Letter
From George Washington To
Sultan Of Morocco (1789)
Sultan Of Morocco (1789)
Letter
from Benjamin Banneker to
Thomas Jefferson 1791
Thomas Jefferson 1791
Universal
Declaration of Human Rights 1948
Declaration
Of The Rights Of The Child (1959)
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